These are dire times for any sort of animation that doesn’t involve computers. Such old-fangled crafts as cel and puppet animation, which require thousands of meticulously detailed drawings or ...

The special, subtitled 'The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom,' features a mix of puppet animation, marionette puppeteering, hand puppets and 2D hand-drawn animation. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, ...

Shadow Machine/Netflix In a career spanning more than three decades, Georgina Hayns has been making puppets that have been brought to life through the art of stop-motion animation on TV shows and ...

Tired of the slow pace of animation production? A new tool is on hand — literally — to help speed things up. Mr. Puppet Animation System is the brainchild of Thinko, a young New York studio with a ...

Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a ...

After five years, celebrated video game Cuphead has another offering: The Delicious Last Course. The original game won legions of fans with sumptuous animation hand-drawn on paper in the style of ...

SMODO, a new piece of animation technology being created in Poland, promises to reduce costs, shorten production and post-production schedules, and simplify work on stop-motion film sets. In short, ...

Mel Gibson is damaged goods, in life and in his latest movie, "The Beaver," the story of a profoundly depressed man who can only function when speaking in the upbeat, Cockney-accented voice of a hand ...

Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants Halloween special is just around the corner! We've seen bits of pieces of the upcoming stop-motion animated episode over the last few months, but as we prepare to ...

The real-life Laika — a Russian street dog who became the first animal launched into orbit — lasted mere hours in space, but paved the way for humans to eventually follow in her tracks. Today, the ...